Ubuntu has a posting like this but a lot of their files don't work in Puppy, so I was hoping some of you out there running conky in Puppy (3.01 if it matters) would help a noob trying to learn to get started.

Saw some interesting add-ons like gmail and a weather forecaster in ubuntu conky but they needed additional packages and it was unclear if they would work in Puppy. Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?

Here's one that was called pizza conky if I remember right, that I want to work on... Thanks in advance...
# Conky sample configuration
#
# the list of variables has been removed from this file in favour
# of keeping the documentation more maintainable.
# Check http://conky.sf.net for an up-to-date-list.

# set to yes if you want Conky to be forked in the background
background yes

The temperature requires that you first modprobe thermal of course. Also, you'll note that rather than the built-in ${acpitemp}C, I used this:
${exec grep "[0-9].*" -o /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/temperature}
That's because the built-in version wasn't updating the temperature very often. My version does it every time Conky updates, which is every second. It only works if the path to the temperature is the same though. I think that can change. I know battery paths can change between different machines.

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Thanks to all that have posted so far! I really like the minimalist, small horizontal-bar approach. Think I'll start working to re-arrange mine. I've also seen where some have rigged conky to check their email, weather and RSS feeds. Anyone have this working in Puppy? (Saw them in the Ubuntu forums)

I'll post my new conkyrc with a screenshot when I'm done._________________Puppy Power!

Here is mine on the eeepc running pupeee. mikeinrichmond if you want rss feeds and weather go to here->http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=1755&start=15 and look at my post for instructions and files there.

Thanks for the clever BoSox scriptage! Fiddling with it now. For anyone using elinks (vs lynx), change "-nonumbers" to "-no-numbering" in trapster's script.

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I just posted on another thread, then thought I should have posted here instead. I would really like to duplicate what you have done with your latest (blue time zone world map) desktop. Can you post further details required to duplicate that setup? Latest news, weather, background image, etc...